W. E. Hick

William Edmund Hick (* August 1, 1912; † 20 December 1974) was a British physician and pioneer in the newly emerging sciences Experimental psychology and ergonomics.

Life

Hick studied medicine at the University of Durham, made in 1938 and earned his degree there in 1949 and doctoral degrees. From 1941 to 1944, Hick in the Royal Army Medical Corps, then he went to the University of Cambridge and worked for the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, cognitive science department of the Medical Research Council.

1953 Hick was appointed Professor, he was also a Fellow of St John 's College. He was a founding member and 1958 President of the Experimental Psychology Society. He was a founding member of the Ergonomics Society and the Ratio Club, an informal group to which, inter alia, Alan Turing, William Ross Ashby, William Grey Walter and WAH Rushton belonged to discuss topics of cybernetics.

Performance

His most famous discovery is the Hicksche Act ( 1952), and Hick - Hyman Law, which describes the relationship between response time and number of choices ..